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The Extraordinarily Profound Paradox of Brexit
The astonishing outcomes of Britain’s psychosis….
Brexit was supposed to be about taking back control.
But It was really about the country’s hatred of the other.
It was all about xenophobia.
It was about keeping out the Polish, Bulgarians, Kosovans, Czechs, Albanians, Romanians and other Europeans from the East of the continent.
And it was also about the delusion of grandeur.
The notion that a once great empire could find itself as part of a political union with no real power and had to take orders from Brussels, made those on the right of the political spectrum choke on their morning cereal.
Those who are old enough will remember the late 1980s when the late Baroness Thatcher would go to the European summits hand bagging Jacques Delors, Helmut Kohl, Francois Mitterand on securing a rebate for the huge amounts that Britain had paid to the union.
You would have thought that the political demise of the first woman Prime Minister would dampen the hatred of all things EU?
Certainly not.
New right wing warriors would emerge and the fringe arguments about our membership would have its day in the sun and once the question was put to the British…